British Soldier Hurt

February 18, 1986

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND — The outlawed Irish Republican Army detonated a land mine Monday on a road near the border with the Irish Republic, seriously injuring a British soldier in a passing patrol, a police spokesman said. The attack occurred about 200 yards from the police station of the border village of Crossmaglen. The mine apparently was detonated just after 10 a.m. by remote control as a police and army patrol filed up the road, the spokesman said. The IRA later said it carried out the attack.